Letts's Illustrated Household Magazine is a new venture, which promises
to perform a useful function. It is to be "a complete encycloptedia of domestic requirements," telling us where we are to live and how, what we are to eat and drink and how we are to be clothed, furnishing us, in fact, with a practical guide in all the require- ments of life. Among the contents are articles on poultry, on dress, on domestic medicine, and on cookery. There is much that is valu- able in these, but we must ask the author of the " Dining-room " whether his bill of fare is not far too costly for the use of families of average means. It is intended, he says, for a " comfortable " in- come. Now, we have been at some pains to calculate the expense, and find that the butcher's bill could hardly be less than 23 per week, and the poulterer's and fishmonger's nearly half as much, barn, bacon, sausages, sardines, and the like being still left lune- counted for. In fact, this family of seven or eight must be able to spend not less than 21,500 per annum. Is not this a little too magnificent ?
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